Openness Awards 2017

4th December 2017, Wellcome Collection, London

Dr Judy MacArthur Clark presented the Internal or Sector Engagement Award to The Babraham Institute for its partnership with the Sopianum School in Netherlands. Students had to design and create solutions to challenging problems, such as creating more effective mouse cages.

Professor Clive Page presented UAR’s Individual Award for Outstanding Contribution to Openness in Animal Research to Rachael Buchanan and Fergus Walsh for their time and persistence in getting access and filming laboratory animals and subsequent balanced reporting at a time when ‘animal research’ evoked a knee-jerk response from much of the public and media.

Following the awards, Professor Clive Page, Head of Sackler Institute of Pulmonary Pharmacology, King’s College London, delivered the 81st Stephen Paget Memorial Lecture ‘How animals have helped with the discovery and development of drugs for the treatment of asthma and COPD’.